Stay and fastener



(No Model.)

P. A. BAILEY. STAY AND FASTBNBR.

Patented June '7, 1898.

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STAY AND PASTI-:NERV

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,402, dated June '7,1898.

Application iiled March 14, 1896.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, PARLEY A DAILEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Stays and Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to stays for ladies" dresses, corsets, and thelike; and the object is to provide a device of that character whichshall be a combined fastener and stay, one side of which is rigidagainst sideWise movement, while the other side is composed of a seriesof jointed sections adapted to be secured to the other part, the wholewhen fastened together being rigid and incapable of sidewise movement. v

The invention therefore consists in the matters hereinafter 4referredtoV in the appended claim, whereby a simple, cheap, and very effectivestay and fastener is secured.

The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure lis a front View, partly in section, showing a 'dress-front provided withmy in-l vention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the jointed sections,and Fig. 3 is a detail of the fastening device.

In the drawings, A represents a portion of the front of a corset, dress,o r other garment to which my improved fastener and stay is shownattached. e

The rigid portion B of the device is composed of a strip of steel orother suitable material either covered with cloth and sewed to the bodyof the garment or having leyeletholes through which threads are passed,securing it in place. By the term rigid as applied t0 this portion Imean that it is incapable of sidewise bending, but is flexible toaccommodate itself to the forward and backward bending of the bodynofthe wearer.

opposite sides plates a t, one, a, having a tongue c extending over theedge and bent to form a partial hook, while the plate I) senti No.583,185. No model.)

forms a spring normally bearing againstthe hooked end of the tongue c,an eye or loop d on 'the part C of the stay or fastener being adapted toengage the hook c and held in engagement therewith by the spring-plateb.

The part C is composed of a series of secthat any sidewise movement ofthe device as a whole is prevented; but the jointed sectional Vpart Cpermits easier releasing and u'nfastening by the wearer than thosedevices now in use, these sections affording a lever by action on whichthe next higher catch is readily released.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A stay and fastener consisting of the mem ber Cformed oflongitudinally-extending sections D pivoted together at their adjacentoverlapped ends, said sections each having on the lower end of its outeredge an integral eye d, a similar eye on the upper end of the uppersection D the eyes d intermediate the upper and lower members D beinglocated in transverse alinement with the pivot-points of the members D,`and the mating non-sectional member B provided with a Aseries offastenings in transverse alinement with said pivots and eyes and eachcomprising a transverse plate a on theouter side of said member andhaving at its outer end a transverse tongue c to project inwardlythrough an eye d, and a longer spring-plate ZJ at the under side of saidmember and extending at its free end across the end of tongue c; saidplates a, b being riveted together through themember B; substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PARLEY A. DAILEY.

Witnesses: i y l,

LUcAs L. VAN ALLEN, Louis Z. Knvs'rnnn.

